This weekend I visited an open house in my neighbourhood that had just been listed. The owner, a 102-year-old man, had moved into a retirement home. I guess it was time, as they say. From the looks of things inside, I don’t think any work had been done on the place since the early 1970s. The layout of the house was fabulous, but the wallpaper not so much. Submitted for your approval.
On our way down to the basement we have this lovely brickwork. But it’s not brick! It is, in fact wallpaper that looks like brick. Does this count as trompe l’oeil? If you run your hand over it, it even has a rough, pebbly texture.
You can really enjoy your trip to the washroom with this fun and friendly wallpaper. Who would want to leave?
This is the wallpaper in the upstairs washroom. Some people might think it’s a bit too much, but it matches nicely with what we get in the large sitting room just outside . . .
Can any words to justice to this? And it covers all four walls of a very large room. I felt I’d stepped onto the set of an Argento film.
Alex Good 
This is why I am a fan of paint and only paint….
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These fashions come and go. Wallpaper will be back, baby!
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I’m sure it will be. and I cry a single tear for that generation that has to experience it….
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May take another fifty years, so you might be safe.
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I hope so. I don’t think I could deal with the whole steaming and hanging and everything…
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Putting that stuff up was a lot of work!
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Come, come, Mr Good, I think we all know whose house these pictures depict? You might try and pass them off as the work of a 102 year old man, put I put it to you that these decorations are considerably more modern than your own prized accoutrements?
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I have a shirt that pretty closely matches the wallpaper in the bottom pic. But I wasn’t wearing it so didn’t get a selfie. Shame.
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I was just reading a blog by a 102 year old man in your area, recently relocated, and he was saying that he’s had his house freshly wall-papered to show yours up as being out of date! He’s posting more pics he took of your gaff soon, I’m hearing its quite a hit on instagram…
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Only the outside. I chase kids that age off my lawn.
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Did you go to this house with a view to purchasing and moving, or just to poke fun at the wonderful wallpaper?
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Just being a nosy neighbour. It was a really crowded open house. The house was quite run down and I think is probably going to be torn down by whoever buys it. A reno at this point would be too much work. Which is too bad because it’s actually quite a funky design.
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Looking for tips on how to modernize his own boudoir, I suspect. Take down that portrait of Queen Victoria!
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Went to another open house just after this one that had a totally insane boudoir. And it was very contemporary. Things haven’t been improving in that regard.
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